SLG Publishing asks fans for legal aid

SLG Publishing has put out a request for financial aid to cover its legal fees.

The debt is the result of a legal battle after the publisher was sued over a trademark issue, reports ComicsAlliance.

SLG head Dan Vado moved forward with the request after admitting that the accusation cost the company "well into five figures, more than we could possibly ever hope to recover publishing comics for the next two years".

"So, as much as it kills me to resort to this, I am asking all of our loyal fans to help us out by donating whatever they feel comfortable sending," Vado wrote on SLG's website.

"Just so we are being clear, SLG is not raising money to fight some long, drawn-out court case, there isn't enough money in all of comics for that kind of fight, we are asking for money to pay for the costs of responding to the letters and harassment from the baseless claims thrown at us.

"This is money we have already spent, a lot of it borrowed, for which there will be no return and is now affecting our ability to operate."